Re:Windows patch KB 3139929: When a security update is not a...
by Laforet on Sunday March 13, 2016 @10:49PM
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Folks over in /r/sysadmin has been complaining for about a week. My understanding if that the upgrade will actually go through unless GPO explicitly prevents the upgrade[0]. And the EULA dialogue will only appear AFTER the installation is complete[1].
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/49nyhl/get_window...
[1]: https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4a0asv/warning_w...
Re:Windows patch KB 3139929: When a security update is not a...
by scholia on Monday March 14, 2016 @08:52AM
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> the EULA dialogue will only appear AFTER the installation is complete
This is true, and it's a waste of time, and it creates unnecessary risk. However, if you decline the EULA, it does roll back to your old OS. I've done this several times and it has worked perfectly so far.
It absolutely shouldn't be happening, but real sysadmins have the means to stop it from happening.
And given Microsoft's reliance on people accepting its EULA, I'm pretty sure it would not deliberately bypass that....
Otherwise, Microsoft stated that it wouldn't upgrade PCs updated via WSUS, so I'd be interested to see concrete evidence, because that would clearly be a mistake. Not to mention wrong.